HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 5210        FILED ON: 9/8/2010

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 5016

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Ten

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An Act Relative to Updating Local Governance in the Town of Clinton ..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding any general or special laws to the contrary the Board of Selectmen in the Town of Clinton shall authorize and empower the Town Administrator the powers and duties to hire, appoint, remove, subject to the provisions of civil service law and of any collective bargaining agreements as may be applicable, all department heads, officers, members of the boards, committees, commissions, and employees or other individuals under the jurisdiction of the Board of Selectmen.

SECTION 2.  Appointments of  department heads made by the Town Administrator shall become effective on the fifteenth day following the day notice is filed with the Board of Selectmen, unless the Board of Selectmen by a majority vote of the full board, vote to reject such an appointment within that period.